The Sun. — London, England, 1838-10-22 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THZ PUBLIC JOURNALS. the time he answered the deputies from the lower povai ces, and when he subsequently sent off his di 'patch to the Colonial-office, that his authority had been so much weakened that it would be inadequate to the emergency which called for its existence ; and he might not be .justi fied in abiding by the determination which that judgment led him to declare, if the people of Canada rally round him with such enthusiasm as to place beyond a doubt that his authority cannot possibly be higher than it is now. But this is not all. Lord Durham is bound to consider not merely whether subsequent circumstances confirm his first judgment. but whether his resignation, by damping the hopes of the well-affected, and giving courage to the disaffected, may not be of positive detriment to the authority of his So vereign and the interests of the empire. We have no doubt that, in determining finally as to his course, all these circumstances will be present to his mind. Merely personal feelings he will not allow himself to en tertain, because he must know that, in the account which he has to render, personal feelings, were he to entertain them, would not be admissible. lie must be able to show that his authority had really been so weakened that it was no longer adequate to the emergency ; and, further, that his withdrawal from the Government, after the disposition evinced by all classes to support him, was not calculated to injure the public service. So much for the issue on which Lord Durham's justification can alone be fairly put. But while we refuse to allow to Lord Dur ham the liberty to act on mere personal feelings, we are far from justifying the disallowing the ordinances. We have always been opposed to the course which Ministers were led to adopt. The question was one for the politician, and not for the lawyer. As is well observed by the Standard of Saturday last, " Grant that the ordinance had been illegal : a wise and zealous Governor may in time of diffi culty do things that are opposed to the letter of the law, and his countrymen willsupport him if they are convinced that the deviation was necessary, and prompted by a good motive; and Lord Brougham himself was not able to deny the necessity of sending the self-convicted traitors out of Canada, if they were not hanged—and they were too many for the Go vernment to hang." The motive imputed by the Standard to the Cabinet, that Ministers hated Lord Durham, and wished to see him humbled, is too ridiculous to be worthy of a serious answer. We should be glad to know in what way Ministers could humble Lord Durham without involv ing themselves in both difficulty and danger. The plain truth of the matter is, that, with the exception of the Lord The newspapers here and in North 'America have since Thursday last been loud in their assurances that her Ma jesty was pleased to accompany the despatches which ap prised Lord Durham of the treatment he had received from her Ministers by an autograph letter, expressive of his Sovereign's personal wish that he should retain the go vernment of her Canadian provinces. A similar statement, and apparently on good grounds, in so far as concerned the Queen's addressing a letter directly from herself to Lord Durham, was made about the time of the Noble Lord's appointment to the office which he has now relinquished. The object of the first (reputed) letter was to exercise upon the Noble Earl that species of gentle violence which it is next to impossible for a gallant man and loyal subject to resist—by engaging his Lordship to that which, when applied to by her Majesty's Ministers, he had declined, and to undertake an office from which we do not overrate the judgment of the late Lord High Commissioner, by conjecturing that he foresaw little prospect of deriving honour for himself, or of producing benefit to his country. Lord Durham may not have known a great deal about Canada before he was offered the government, but he knew perfectly the people under whose orders he was to administer the government of those unsettled provinces ; and that, we are sure, will sufficiently account for his ori ginal repugnance to acquiesce in the proposal of Ministers. The "dignus vindice nodus" then seems, in the eyes of her Majesty's official advisers, to have arisen—so the word was passed by the " Mayor of the Palace." " In tersit Deo." cries Lord Melbourne. The extraordinary interposition takes place forthwith—a mandate, re dolent of the Royal boudoir, is despatched. In an evil hour for himself, and unquestionably for North America, the pledged supporter of English democracy becomes the victim of courtly blandishment. He goes to attempt immeasurable purposes with pinched and niggard means. He strives to enlarge his re medial powers to the width of his unforeseen emerg encies, is censured, sacrificed, and disgusted out of office. Now, we have never ceased to think that it was a most unfair proceeding of Lord Melbourne to render his excessive and unbounded influence over a y oung Queen supplementary to his natural want of influence with a Nobleman of whom he was jealous, whim he personally disliked, and by whom his offers of ostensible trust, but real exile, had been unequivocally rejected. We say it was an unfair—nay, more, an unconstitutional proceeding, to clothe himself in such unaccustomed armour, and set an irresponsible and irresistible agency to work upon the weak ness of Lord Durham. It was, with all reverence be it spoken, like bringing a fireship, or still worse, a catama ran, into action with an enemy on the open sea, and that enemy but indifferently armed. However, the stratagem was successful for the time. The noble recusant was prevailed upon, or more properly, coerced, and has paid dearly for it. But is such a thing to be imagined as that, winning the first game of his rubber by a trick so reprehensible, this Lord Melbourne should be impu dent enough to try the same false card once more, and trump a second time with his Queen of Hearts, after all the honours had been played out already ? Can it be true that the papers are correct in affirming the receipt by Lord Durham of an additional autograph letter from the same fair hand as the former one—that, after being once humbugged, and then insulted, they should hope to entrap him again? No ; if the fact were so, it would argue a contempt for Lord Durham, which no Englishman arrived at the age of 40, and not yet an outcast from society, could by any moral possibility merit. When the gross conduct of Ministers towards the Lord High Commissioner was manifested, we declared on the instant that he or they must eventually send in their resignation. We might have added, what indeed all the world foresaw, that in the mat ter of resigning place and salary the initiative would not be taken by the betrayers of Lord Durham. As for the cock-and-bull stories about the troubles of Lower Canada being appeased, the native Canadians being more reconciled to Great Britain, and the foundations of constitutional government having ac quired more strength since Lord Durham's arrival at Quebec than before, the very details furnished of the state of the province—the capture of smuggled guns, the spread of conspiracy, and the universal anticipation of another outbreak, which is known to have existed many weeks before aught was heard of an intention on his part to resign, give the lie emphatically to any such puerile chimeras. It is useless to rip up old grievances for topics of reproach, but it may be salutary for lessons of prudence. The French race of Lower Canada have been rocked and dandled into rebels. Always hating England since she foolishly conferred upon them the privilege of speechmak ing, law-making, and stopping supplies, and putting on the high-life-below-stairs pretensions of a sovereign Parliament, and all that, they have ceased to fear her. Among many enterprises indicative of short foresight in Mr. Pitt, there was hardly one more conspicuous than that of teaching the French Canadians to play with democratic institutions. You might as well dress a poor Sunday school boy in bro cade. The Canadians thought themselves well enough governed when they had a General Officer, with or without his Council (is under the old French colonial system), to issue his orders for the service of the colony, instead of supplicating your Papineaus for money to pay the salaries of the King's Judges, and to support those just expenses which are essential to the carrying on of all civil government, and in every in stance to be refused. India has been pretty well adminis tered until of late years, when such perverse or leather- Fated animals as Lord William Bentinck and Lord Auck land have been sent thither. Yet no one but some wise acre like Mr. Silk Buckingham ever thought himself the worse for having placed over him a Governor-General and Council of experienced men. Would Ireland—we mean the O'Connell and incendiary part of it—be better ruled by a Committee of turbulent agitators or intriguing priests, or by a Governor-General and Council of statesmen, re sponsible to the Imperial Parliament ? Are what we term liberal institutions, such as Houses of Assembly, Juries, &c., to be deemed the end and consummation of all social existence, or means constructed for paramount social ends ? If a Jury, for example, be an end in itself, not an instru ment, then is such an end compatible with the impunity, and therefore the encouragement, of the most shocking crimes. Would it, let us ask, have been better for society that the butcherly assassins of poor Char trand should have been convicted and hanged by a Court-martial without a Jury, or tried by a Jury which perjured itself to acquit the murderers ! Names are not things. Juries are not always justice, nor representative democracies dispensers of civil freedom. Where the forms of liberty do not work for the ends of good government, it is flagitious nonsense to talk of such countries being fit for the enjoyment of what Englishmen for a long succession of ages have been used to prize as their most sacred institu tions. The forms of a free constitution are wasted upon Lower Canada. They are an actual nuisance there, where the mass of the ignorant and anti-British inhabitants do not want freedom, but do want separation from this Chancellor, who spoke the language of sound sense, all the lawyers were against them. An outcry was raised by the Conservatives, who abetted Lord Brougham in his furious proceedings on the occasion. The Times, indeed, tells us now that it was mean in Ministers not to uphold the or- dinances ; but the Times at that time proclaimed that country. A Lower Canadian Parliament will always be a thorn in our side, and must ulcerate the condition of all our other colonies. The question has hardly ever been so much as glanced at by any of our so-called statesmen here, under that its true, and permanent, and essential aspect. Let Lord Durham say now, like an honest man, what he thinks of it, and our life for it, that (apart from the consi deration of his own wrongs) he will tcll us that Sir John Colborne with his 10,000 or U,OOO disciplined soldiers is a far better legislator for the Canadian people, not merely with a view to the interests of the empire, but to theirs, than a Papineau Parliament ever could or would be, with its chronic rebellion in the back ground.—'!'lures. Should Lord Durham persist in his determini.tion to re sign, the ground on which such a step can alone admit of justification is that which he assigned in his answer to the delegates from the lower provinces, namely, that by the in terference of a branch of the British Legislature, in which the responsible advisers of the Crown had deemed it their duty to acquiesce, his authority had been so weakened as to render it totally inadequate to the grave emergency which aline called for its existen ce . W e put aside, as unworthy of a moment's consideration, the supposition that in taking this grave step he suffered himself to be influenced Ly per sonalfeclings; for no man k nows b etter than Lord Durham that personal feelings would not justify his ahondoninent of the high trust confided to him by his Sovereign, with the a pprobation of Parliament and the country. When he ac cepted that trust, and entered on the execution of its duties, he incurred a high responsibility, wh i c h the conscientio us _ conv i ction that cireum from stances left him no longer th e hope of being able to per f orm the se rvices anticipated from his appointment could alone relieve him. Lord Durham himself put the question on that issue ; and it is but doing justice to his Lordship to state that the opinion that his authority h a d been so weakene d as to render it im p ossib le for him to dis charge with advantage the duties of the trust confided to more than onßeutof neither r he w r well-informed Correspondents him was shared by di H sa i i s low L a o n rd ce sh o ip f Correspondents in that quarter. ham nor our Correspondents are might be justified in anticipating the way of weakening his au ifnr o fa m i the ordinances an effect in When it is thority which experience ance of the ordinances may e not ,confirm. found that the effect of the disa husiastic devotion has been to silence all opposition to h;s Government, and to call forth an unanimous burst of ent towards him, no one will say that the men are not assume a new shape. The strongest-minde d question does not proof against the astrous intelligence, and it is not detracting from the judgment of of Lord Durham, or impugning the of our Correspondents, to suppose that they over-rated the effect which the disallowing the ordinance ultimately have in weakenin g hi s L or d s hi p ' s a uthority. , His Lordship . might alight, therefor e , b e j us tifi e d i n judging et d " a gene fal feeling of indignation has been excited by that nobleman's (Lord Durham's) illegal and des potic ordinances." We wish Lord Melbourne, who pointed out the mischief which the interference with the ordinances would cause, and who was quite sensible that the lawyers were leading the House wrong, had not given way to them ; but, aban doned as he was, it is hardly to be wondered at that he should at last have yielded. A loud outcry was rased against that part of the ordinances in particular which consisted in dealing with certain parties as convicted who had never been tried, and of whose guilt there was, there fore, no legal evidence ; and in this country there is a strong dislike to whatever appears to militate against this first principle of justice, to condemn no man un heard. But in a country in the state in which Canada then was, more especially when the object was to com bine the general safety with humanity, the measure was fully justified by circumstances. It was necessary to keep the parties out of Canada. To be trifling with legal forms at a time when the safety of the pro vince was endangered would have been in Lord Durham sacrificing the substance to the shadow. Yet the sapient Conservative Peers who suffered Lord Brougham to lead them by the nose would have had Lord Durham waste his time in impeaching all the rebels who had not confessed, and taking evidence in due form of their guilt For the conduct of the Conservatives a queer sort of de fence has been set up by the Standard. Assuming that Ministers wished to lay a trap for Lord Durham, in order to crush him, the Conservatives, forsooth, wished to assist them in that pious work ! This view of the matter may account for the otherwise in explicable course taken by some Conservatives. It is possible that they may have felt the unconstitutional character of the loose relation subsisting between the Cabinet and its Canada Commissioner, and pressed upon his acts in order to compel the Ministers to undergo the constitutional responsibility for them. We do not approve of this policy, but we are not as sured that many persons experienced in the offices of Govern ment will agree with us in our dislike of it. With official politicians—the . Idols trilau,' as Bacon calls them—the ido latry of system is all-prevailing—and thus it happens that in extraordinary contingencies, beyond the sphere of system, the Statesmen of experience seldom make the best guides." The Conservatives are much beholden to our ingenious Contemporary.—Morning Chronicle. Woe to the age of intellect! Its pride has fallen—its glory is in the dust, The liberal iconoclasts of the great city and the image-breakers of Canada have confederated together, and, with foul and most unnatural violence, have torn from its pedestal the effigy of the leader of the " march of mind," dragged it to the place of execution, consigned it with rope and faggot to the fate of the malefactor, and, im patient of the slow process of extermination by fire, bat tered the " wooden features" into mummy with a ferocity proportionate to their former veneration ! Thus have the hands of the majesty of the people treated the image of Lord Vaux as if he were another Guy Vau.r—a familiar of the powers of darkness—not a diffuser of universal illu mination ; a clandestine disposer of gunpowder and other combustibles—not a dealer in cheap knowledge and Penny Magazines; a conspirator with his fire-balls and dark lan tern—not the " schoolmaster" with his rod and Primer. " It is well," says a Morning Ministerial Journal, after describing the scene of the execution done upon the " excellent wooden likeness" of its once demi deified " Harry Brougham," now treated no better than " Old Harry"—" it is well," says that organ of Downing-street, " that the Noble and Learned Lord was not in Canada," thereby giving us to understand that if the veritable Brougham and Vaux, and not his graven image, had been in Quebec, the sovereign people would have pre ferred performing an auto-da-fe upon the living original to inflictine. a Smithfield martyrdom upon his mahogany sub stitute r Who, after this, would be " the man of the people," to be treated as certain savage tribes treat their idols—by scourging them with whips, pelting them with dirt, and dashing them to the earth, because the divinity with the "wooden features" sometimes gave them other gifts than they asked for in their prayers? What a theme for the moralist is here presented ! What an additional illustration of Juvenal's vanity of human wishes! It ap pears but as yesterday when the name of Henry Brougham had a talismanic effect upon the hearts of the multitude, and the owner of that name was carried into power upon the tide of the people's emotion. 0 that the day should have come when " the masses" in any part of the Queen of Great Britain's dominions could have thought of putting a rope round his neck in person or in effigy, and executing upon their deposed and buffeted idol the mortal indignities which the Roman mob inflicted on the fallen Sejanus / Have the image -breakers of Canada, then, and the iconoclasts of the great city, resolved to be done with idols, wooden or brass, for ever ? Have they de termined to get rid of man-worship, and to excercise the godlike faculty of reason in thinking for themselves ? Not at all. They have only knocked down one image to set up another. They have only battered to pieces the one " wooden" idol to set up another in its place, and prostrate themselves in the dust before it. They have, in short, only demolished the image of Brougham to place upon its pedes tal for a season that of Durham, soon in turn to suffer the fate which mob-popularity hunters have undergone among all people, and in all ages of the world. Such is the unsta blenatureopfrn popular io, favour, such the unreasonab l e ness of popular i cn that not Brougham of has his be p e o n lit l i i c a o n l ge d d eli o n r burnedn effi g y, - quPncies, but -for a most meritorous public act. The liberal iconoclasts of the Government press did not I exult over the wreaking of popular vengeance upon I his effigy beca use of tite prominent part Which he took in " barrin g th e gates of mercy" on the suffering poor, and advocating the unchristian doctrines and unmanly cruelties of the Malthusian oppression, or because 1 of his inconsistent conduct, when in and out of office, on many great public questions--such as tithe, national edu cation, Wakley's " three powders," &c. ;—no, all their malice was reserved for the punishment of an offence which consisted in his vindicating the outraged authority of law and the constitution against the wild freaks of des potic power, consigning untried British subjects to banish ment, and thereby establishing a precedent of the most dangerous consequence to the liberties of Englishmen in all parts of the Queen's dominions. This was the crime of Lord Brougham ; and if ever there was an act of his political life which ought to be held in grateful remem brance, it was that by which he wrested the iron sceptre from the hand of the vain-glorious Canadian Autocrat, and broke it on the altar of the Constitution. For this crime —not against his country, but against the personal —the of Lord Durham approvingly relate the indig august dynasty visited the of the ennobled coal merchant'swrath—the image of the ex-Lord Chancellor -- choosing ell.loe r n_ c obj h e n c o t s o in f g th n e o ir t to recollect that Lord Melbourne and his colleagues were ace nioplices with the Toriesin the support of Lord Brougham's niefts f ure. When we hear one of these Ministeri J exclaim tohuart nalists, in tones of hypocritical indignation, " the conduct of the Tories in abetting Lord Brougham i n hi s mischievous course is such as it is impossible to 144404 in , toms of, too ;troy; cogidennsiolv._we THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1838. not avoid asking " whether has Lord Durham most rea son to complain of the adversaries who opposed or the friends who sacrificed him ? Lord Durham has answered that question himself ; for he says " opposition from Lord Brougham, and from those who acted with him, was no more than he might have expected. But he was compelled to say that he was put down—sacrifieed by his friends, by those whose duty it was to stand forth in his defence." Of the conduct of such friends it is " impossible to speak in terms of too strong condemn ,lion." But, having sent out the lordly mimic of imperial power to Cenada with the view of getting rid of a formidable rival at home, Lord Melbourne and his colleagues were, probably, pleased at the opportunity to lend a hand, as a ccomplices, to humble his pride, and damage what small reputa tion for political wisdom he had carried from St. Petersburgh to Quebec, though they never would have had courage to attempt the thing as prin cipals, uncovered by such men as Lord Brougham. Lord ' Lyndhurst, and the Duke of Wellington. For our own part, instead of looking, like the Standard, at the resignation of Lord Durham with dismay, we regard that event, as we before observed, rather in the light of a deli verance of all our North American colonies. of which he was the ruler, from the ruinous infliction of that scheme of federal democracy, which, in respect of those states, would realise for a demagogue, like Papincau or O'Connell, some thing like the idea of Caligula, in regard to the Roman people, when he said he " wished they had but one neck, that he might strike it off at a blow." So the federal de mocracy would enable one profligate and fortunate dema gogue to strike off the neck of British snpremacy, as to all the British North American colonies, at a blow ; and what would become of " the British party" then? The Standard, we observe, denies the validity of the opinion said to have been given by the law officers of the crown, that " the transportation of the confessing traitors to the Bermudas was illegal." It says the question was not properly a question of law, but one of geography, adding, " If the Bermudas constitute a part of the Queen's dominions in North America, as we have proved they do, aey are included in Lord Durham's com mission, and the ordinance of transportation could not be held illegal." Our opinion is, that, had his supreme auto cratship transported the said traitors to the Balearic Isles instead of the Bermudas, his act would have been not more illegal than it was, though, in point of geography, that would have hei n a considerable difference. He had no right to deport untried prisoners at all for the purpose of banishment. That sentence could only be executed in con sequence of some judicial proceeding. But the Standard says they were " confessing traitors." We were not aware that, in any of the dominions to which the shadow of the British constitution extends, a confession of crime could be made a ground of punishment, unless judicially notified and recorded. What proof can the Executive Govern ment have of the confession of a crime but through some court, civil or military, which is legally authorised to take cognizance of it ? His commission could not have con ferred any such monstrous power on Lord Durham. If, indeed, he could legally banish untried men, he could legally, on the same principle, put untried men to death—a power which, we are sure, does not belong to the prerogative of the British Crown—a power which we take it does not even belong to what is called the " omnipotence" of the British Parliament, and therefore a power which neither the Sovereign on the Throne nor the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled could have conferred upon Lord Durham, although, the ille ga l or di nances h av i ng issued, they undertook to indemnify him agai ns t th e l e al consequences of proceedings which violated all notions of British justice. A Morning Ministerial Journal, while vainly endeavouring to rescue the Ministry from the charge of having sacrificed their friend by the double-faced policy which they pursued, attacks the Law Officers of the Crown, and, with a maganirnous contempt for the restraints of law upon power, says, " There is a fatality in the contact of lawyers with great political questions." The restraints of settled law we know are equally inconvenient to the pre rogative of the despot and the licence of the demagogue. James 11. thought so, and so did Jack Cade. The latter declared he would begin his government by banging ali lawyers, for without lawyers the laws can neither be inter preted nor administered. And James 11., with his fa vourite Judge Jeffries, so entirely dispensed with law, that when, upon the accession of William 111., old Sergeant Maynard waited upon his Majesty, the King, having heard that he had outlived all his early contemporaries at the bar, alluded to that circumstance. "If it had not been for your Majesty's timely arrival," was the ready answer of the Ser geant, I should have outlived the law itself." It is quitii certain that, if James 11. had continued to reign, our Whig Contemporary would not have to lament, in the present en lightened age, the checks which law places upon the exer cise qfpower.—Morning Herald. All our Contemporaries continue to be tegroseed with the resignation of Lord Durham, and almost all unite in condemnation of the factious and vindictive proceeding, which interrupted a course of government universally ap• plauded as most conducive to the pacification and permit. nent tranquillity of the revolted provinces. By some, how ever, it is asserted that if Lord Durham had treated the machinations of his enemies, and, must we add, the feeble defence of his friends, with indifference, and persevered in the course which his own conscience and the concurient evidence of all interested in the result indicated as best calculated to secure the prosperity and allegiance of the Colonies confided to his government, and promote the general interests of his country, he would have evinced a more than human—a godlike magnanimity. But is it fair to expect such magnanimity from any man ? Under the most apparently judicious administration of the Canadian Government that the heart of man could conceit e, or his energy execute, the result, under all circum stances, must have been doubtful ; and coull it b e fairly expected twat in a position of so muc h difficult y and responsibility, when a tacit censure was passed o n his conduct by his enemies, and acquiesced in by hi friends, and a want of confidence evinced in his administra tion by the home authorities, at the very moment when the fullest and most implicit confidence was necessary to give effect to his government, and ensure it s uccess—could it fairly be expected that any man would risk his character and fame—his most precious possession—a sacrifice to his country under such circumstances ? Men have often been found to sacrifice their lives to their country, but this sacri fice has been generally, if not always, prompted as much from regard to character and fame, as from any more patriotic impulse ; but there is scarcely an instance on record wherein character and fame have been sacrificed to a mere disinterested love of country. To expect such sacrifice is to evince an utter ignorance of human nature. In such en emi rgeney as this caused by Lord Durham's resignation, it is, of course, competent for her Majesty and Privy Council to adopt such measures as the urgency of the case may demand, trusting, whenever it. may be necessary to trench on the spirit of the Constitution, to obtain an " indemnity" from Par liament ; but, as the extraordinary powers vested by the recent Commission were granted in a great measure on the faith of Lord Durham's character, his Lordship having, been specifically named for their execution, we do not con sider that a successor can be legally appointed without the consent of Parliament—and, therefore, unless his Lordship be prevailed upon to withdraw his resignation, of which we have little or no hope, an early assembling of Parliament may be expected.—Morning Advertiser. It is assumed by the whole of the Ministerial Press that the abdication by Lord Durham of his Transatlantic throne is an event of which the effect must certainly be to prolong and increase the calamities and dangers in which our Cana dian Colonies are involved. The assumption is, perhaps, a convenient one, although we do not very clearly perceive how it cien render any service to the Ministers by whose perfidy and desertion Lord Durham says—and Lord Dur ham ought surely to know the causes and motives of his own conduct—he was compelled to abdicate. It is, indeed, a very recent discovery of the Ministerial party, to which a Journal, not professing tee be Ministerial, pointed out to them the way, that the abdication of the Canadian Autocrat is calculated to . retard, in the slightest degree the restoration of tranquillity in the Canadas, or the consolida than of British authority in those colonies. Up to Thurs day last, the leading Ministerial Journals were assiduous collectors of facts, or active fsbricatora of falsehoods, the whole tendency of which was to show that Lord Durham, daring his residence in Canada, had been utterly unsuccess ful in allaying the animosity of the French party, or restor ing the confidence of the British ; and that little hope re mained of these objects being accoleplished by his means. The leading organs of the Ministry, up to the very day on which the news of L ord Durham's resi g nation a rrived, were full of lamentations on the unfortunate and a pp alli ng condi tion of the Canadas. Property had fallen. Commerce was extinct. Conspiracies were formed or formin g in ev er y part of the country against the authorit y of the ritish Govern ment, and the propertyand persons of the British population. The conspirators were bound together by secret oaths. Arms were clandestinely introduced. Cannon and amtnu nition had been frequently captured by the loyal Canadian volunteers near the boundary of the United States. Juries, when empanelled for the trial of rebels and murderers, were found to be imbued with the spirit of rebellion, and the disposition to abet and defend murder. The sanctity of the juror's oath had ceased to be of any value. The ordi nary administration of justice bad become impossible, and to bring a criminal to trial by due course of law, however numerous and aggravated his crimes, provided only that treason were one of the number, was in effect to ensure his impunity. Such being the representation of the condition of Canada given by the Ministerial Journals—of the condition of Canada before any thing was known there of Lord Durham's resignation, or of the circum stances which were to produce it—it seems reaso' • able to ask how much worse it could have been had Lord Durham never been sent to Canada at all ; or what additional evil is likely to ensue from the retirement of a Governor who with such powers, legal and military, as were placed in his Lordship's hands, had been unable to prevent the growth or the continuance of such a state of affairs ? We are very decidedly of opinion that Sir John Coibsrne, with the same legal powers, and the same military force that were confided to Lord Durham, and aided by the advice and co-operation of such British Canadian states men and lawyers as he would have known exceedingly well how to find, instead of Messrs. Buller, Turton, Duncombe, Ellice, and Gibbon Wakefield, would have succeeded much better in restoring peace, security, and prospe rity to the Canadas, than Lord Durham seems, if there be any truth in the assertions of the Ministerial press, to have done. There is indeed, in relation to the in terests and safety of the Canadas, only one method of accounting for the sudden paroxysm of grief into which Lord Durham's resignation of the Government of those colonies has thrown the Ministerial party. They had discovered before the news of his Lordship's abdication had reached them, that all was lost unless the French habitans of Lower Canada, a vast numerical majority of the whole population, could be denationalised. The symp toms exhibited under his Lordship's treatment of the dis eases of Canada, had become such that, in the opinion of the Ministerial party in England, to denationalise the peo ple afforded the only remaining hope of cure. It is possible, no doubt, that the process of denationalising a people may be Lord Durham's peculiar forte, and that the Ministerial people in England know it to be so. This is a process which, whether correctly or not we do not say, is very generally supposed to be studied with peculiar diligence and tolerable success at St. Petersburgh, where Lord Durham has been recently a student ; and if badges of distinction from this college be honest attestations of the merit of its pupils, neither a dilatory nor a dull one. It is tso cause of surprise, when we look at the subject in this point of view, that those who have just made up their minds to denationalise the French inhabitants of Coracle, coute que coute, should deplore the loss of an agent likely to prove so skilful and vigorous in the work as one whom they may suppose to have taken his degree, and earned his decorations as a master of the art of denationalization at the college of St. retersbur g h. There is yet another method of reconciling the Ministerial description of the condition of Canada under Lord Durham's exercise of his unstinted powers, with the Ministerial expressions of grief and dismay on account of the Noble Lord's abdi cation of his authority ; and it is a method which has relation not to the state and prospects of Canada, but to the state and prospects of parties in Great Britain. His Lordship is not only quitting Canada, which would be a small ev.l, but he is coming to England, which is felt in all Ministerial circles to be a very great one. He is corn ing to England fretted by disappointment, goaded by the sense of injury and insult, panting for the opportunity of self-vindication, and panting not the less eagerly that in his case an easy revenge upon others may supply the place of a difficult or impossible self-defence. It is plain from the tone of the Ministerial journals be fore it was known that Lord Durham was coming home, and the change that has suddenly come over their spirit since the arrival of that intelligence, that Ministers who had screwed up their courage to the point of defy ing the Noble Lord when at a distance, are terrified into the more prudent policy of crouching before him now that they have heard of his instant approach. And to crouch to the very dust is their inevitable lot, if they would shun the destruction with which he is armed whom tney created a despot to immolate as a victim. Woof ever may be the weakness of Lord Durham's case in its relation to the people of Great Britain or of Canada, it is a case of irresistible power as against the Ministers who appointed to desert. who would have retained to dishonour him. They can only save themselves from the effect of Lord Durham's recrimination by taking his defence out of his own hands into theirs. And how will they defend the man whom they assisted, rather than hazard their places, to wound and stain by a Parliamentary indemnity, which they first pronounced to he needless, and then presented to their Sovereign for her Royal assent. We should not blame Lord Durham if .he were to insist, as the condition of his forbearance, that every member of the Cabinet should get up in the House of Parliament to which he belongs and make a speech of an hour to prove that the Bill of Indemnity, so far as they were concerned in it, was a Bill of perfidy and shame. Even to this wo believe every one of them would submit.—Merning Post. One of the most extraordinary races against time that has, perhaps, ever been recorded, took place on Friday la tat Debtling, near Maidstone. Mr. Thomas Hopper, farmer, of Biddenden, who is forty-two years of age, whose fame as a jumper is great in this district, having cleared, it is said, every turnpike gate between Meidstone and Tenterden, undertook, for a wager of 10/ to run half a mile in two minutes. The ground selected was half a mile of the descent of Debtling-hill, a fearful steep, averaging a fall of at least two feet in ten yards. The road was carefully swept and cleared by Mr. Crawte and another friend. At starting, for about a quarter of a mile, the strides of Mr. Hopper averaged three yards each, and in some of the steepest places were even longer. When within about fi(teen yards of the winning post he became nearly blind, swerved from the line, and fears were entertained that he would dash himself against a chalk cliff A fortunate rut in the road turned his foot into the right direction, and he reached the winning post eight seconds under the two minutes. He was conveyed to bed almost in a delirious state from the ter ific exertions he had made, but recovered in a short time afterwards. It may not be uene rally known that a mile in five minutes, and one hundred yards in ten seconds, is first rate running. The average speed of Mr. Hopper in this race was more than 23 feet and a half each second, for the distance of half a mile. In person he is nearly six feet high, of a spare fame, but great strength. SIIIPWRECKS.-011 Thursday, a smack, called the Elizabeth, of Shields, bound to Newcastle, with lime, un eztunately got upon the rocks, called the Sow, near Blyth. Five men, much to their credit, went off in a small coble from Blyth in the evening, during a heavy gale of wind, and suc ceeded, at the risk of their own lives, in saving the crew, who certainly must have perished without their assistance : the vessel went to pieces in the course of the night. On the same day the schooner Isabella, of Arbroath, bound with lime from Sunderland to Arbroath, encountered a tre mendous gale in the Frith of Firth, and lost part of her 'ails. About day-light next morning she was observed to he on fire, and, for the safety of the crew, attempting to make Eyemouth and Berwick. but failed. At two o'clock in the afternoon she endeavoured to get to Holy Island, and g roun d e d on th e sout h s id e o f th e b ar . At t hi s juncture the life boat was launched and manned, and they succeeded in saving the crew, consisting of four men, thoueh at the imminent risk of their own lives, the boat having filled with water, and they having to be taken in tow by a coble. MR. WILSIIERE AT YARMOUTH.—VIr. Wil shere, whom we may justly call our Honourable Representa tive, arrived in Yarmouth last night on a visit to Mr. S. Pal mer. The Honourable Member (we cannot help reminding our opponents that he is still our Member, and that Mr. Ba ring is not)—the Honourable Member is suffering from a se vere attack of rheumatism in his right arm and shoulder, but is with this exception in good health. He is at this time fulfil ling his promise of calling upon his supporters to thank them for their votes. The reception he meets with is most flat tering—indeed we may say enthusiastic. He lives in the hearts of the electors, as if he was an old and long-cherished friend. Mr. Samuel Palmer, with that hospitality for which he is so distinguished, will give three grand dinners at his residence on the Quay to Mr. Wilshere and his principal friends and supporters. Amongst those who have accepted invitations to meet the Hon. Member and the Manor, are Admi ral Sir George Parker, K. C. 8., Simon Cobb, Esq., Samuel Jay, Esq., W. D. Palmer, Esq., John Carr, Eq., George Steward, Esq., J. Bayly, Esq., J. Clowes, Esq., &c. &c. With respect to our prospects as to the future representation of this borough, Mr. Baring declines giving any positive answer to the qusstion of what advantage he intends to take of the late decision. The highly honourable course pursued by Mr. Wilshere deserved a bitter return than this. Common cour tesy, delicacy, decency, should have urged Mr. Baring to set his opponent's mind at rest upon this point. A public meet ing of the electors will be called in a few days, to &tot-mine the best mode of proceeding in the present emergency. What resolutions they may come to we of course cannot pretend to say, but we are given to understand that, should it be thought prudent to leave Mr. Wilshere out of the question for a time, it is not unlikely their choice will fall on our highly respected townsman, Robert Palmer Kemp, Esq.—Norwich Mercury. ANCIENT RELIC.—About a year ago we noticed the removal of the old house in Queen -street believed to have been the residence of Mary of Lorraine. Various specimens of curiously carved work in the shape of oak pannsls were then taken down ; and last week, in making a asbr,toita between repairsete the above build_ u v poe h o e f house adjoining, apparently forming p ing, a massive oak door was discovered found, which bear l' all els the which two black letter M. S. S. were appearance, in the absence of dat es, of belonging to the period when these residences were or i g inally occupied. Th e curious in these matters, may see them at our office for a few days._ Scotsman. WILD GEESE. —A few days ago, a large flock Of wild geese were observed upon the river Derwent, near Mat lock, where they had hadtheir residence for some time. Many people are apt to say, that the appearan ce of theee feathered rovers indicate a severe_ E ... win_ 1 ter. — . ) oncest h e i r ig G h a ly zet r t e e : On Wednesd a y n ight, Mrs. astwick, a spectable widow lady, of Dorset-place, Dars!et-sq usre' Re geniss_park, committed suicide vt whilst in a st a t e o f mentalaber ra tion, by preci pttvtii .g herself from one of the a tti c w i n d ows of her house , which is six stories high, into her garden, and expired in a few moments. Many conjectures are offered as to who may be elected as Mayor for this borough for the ensuing year, but it does not appear to be positively known who will be the suc cessful aspirant to civic honours. We believe that some of the wards will this year be contested against the Radicals.— Norwich Gazette. ZEAL.-41 1815, after the hundred day.;, M. de Talleyrand having n appointed Minister o f Foreign c Affairs, was waited upon by the °dicers of his Aclui,ts •• There is one thing, gentlemen," said (Iv Primwhich I reco mmend to you before and above all, an d not to be too zealous, for I detest zeal," SURREY SESSIONS. KINGSTON, OCT. 20.— MN. Mary Elizabeth Filby and Elizabeth, her daughter, were irnActed for assaulting James Stephens whilst in the execution of his duty. The prosecutor stated that be was an auctioneer and ap praiser at Egham, and was employed by the churchwardens to distrain for church-rates on the goods of Mr. Filby, the hus band of one and father of the other defendant, who is a coach man in that town, but on going to th.• house and distraining on a table the defendants showed him an assignmeot of the goods to Mr. Filby, jun., and he went away. Six days after wards the churchwardens, thinking the- as,ig , linent to be a trick, obtained another warrant of distresA, a ed, ac , Ampanied by Mr. Mills, he went to Filhy's house to execut it. The witness again distrained upon the table, who and Miss Filby said he should nut take it. Miss Filby Oeciaring she would scratch his eyes out if he touched it, and her mother, seizing a gun from ag,aio , _,t the wall, presented it to his head, threatening to shoot him if he did not leave the house. The son of the elder defendant snatched the gun from her, upon which they sidled round the table and pushed him to the door, and when there Miss Filby forcibly pushed him into the street. In his cross-examination he admitted Mrs. Filby having offered him the amount of the rate without the expenses, which he refused to take, and that Mr. Filby told him to dis train on any of the carriages, which were his own, but that he did not like to take anything so much above the amount of the rate. In the defence it was asserted that the gun was not loaded, and had no lock on it. The Jury found the defendants Guilty, and the Court sen ;enced them to pay a fine of 20s. each. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-AO USE. Mr. Bush, the solicitor to the Committee of Bankers for pro tection against forgers and robbers, having attended on Satur day before Sir P. LAURIE to request that a person charged with having committed forgery might be remanded, Sir PETER took the opportunity of addressing a gentleman of so much legal experience and acuteness on a matter of con siderable interest to the community, particularly to commer cial men, who were liable to serious depredations from the in genious practices of the swindlers with whom London abounded. He wished to be informed publicly of the opi nion Mr. Bush entertained of the report of the Committee, of which Mr. HaWes was Chairman, on the subject of police, more particularly of that part of it which recommended the appointment of ushers in the place of the offic( rs who had been long in the habit of acting on the most important occa sions, and the collecting of information by the officers of the metropolitan police alone. The recommendations he alluded to were of course to the effect of dispensing with the services of such men as the two Forresters, Roe, Hirdtield, Leadbit ter, Plank, Keys, and others of that class of intelligent and able officers. Mr. Bush had read the Report, and could not help express ing his surprise at whet appeared to him to be an extremely injudicious recommendation. It evidently proceeded from men who knew nothing practically of the most effectual way of discovering offenders. It would be recollected that, al though there was a remarkable decrease of crimes attended with violence, there was a great increase of crimes of enormity —crimes, he might call them, of mind—and to grapple with the crimes thus progressing, great tact, and experience, and practice were necessary. He was convinced that it would require thirty years' education to bring men to the perfect knowledge of the business in which they were employed. which the individuals he had named possessed, and which were absolutely necessary to meet the talent with which plunder was at p, esent committed. Sir PETER LAURIE thought, from the knowledge which Mr. Bush was known to possess on so very momentous a subject, that the Parliamentary Committee would have sum moned him before them, in order to be made acquainted with the working of the existing machinery. He ( Sir Peter Laurie) had, when under examination, recommended the examination of Mr. Bush, Mr. nobler, the chief clerk to the Lord Mayor, and others, who were well qualified to give the information which the Committee ought to have received before they decided upon recommending the abo lition of a system which must be most incompetently substi tuted. But be had been given to understand that the Com mittee did not like practical men ; and no doubt the opinions of such me❑ would ie t be relished by theorists. Mr. Bush said it would appear that the authority of practi cal men was likely to have but little weight with those who made the preposterous recommendations referred to by Sir Peter Laurie. In order to give any chance of effect to the project, it would be necessary to adopt the plan of passports, to which he did not think it probable the people of England would be easily reconciled. The plan was evidently borrowed from the French and Austrian police code; and although probably well suited to the genius of those countries, was wholly at variance with English principles and practice. A theorist in such matters was no authority. A theoretical farmer might as well be consulted on the details of the cultiva tion of a farm. Nothing, in fact, could be more absurd than such visionary speculations. Sir PETER LAURIE—You have just given utterance to the opinions I have long formed. Mr. Bush had spoken to Sir Peter Laurie just a s he would speak to the Committee if under examination before them. Sir P. LAURIE said] it gave him much gratification to state that the evidence of Sir Frederick Roe was most decidedly in favour of continuing to the Magistrates the power of employ ing particular officers. Mr. Bush observed that the subject was one of great impor tance to merchants and bankers. He was most positive that the substitution proposed in the place of the existing plan, of obtaining the assistance of the principal officers, through the medium of the Magistracy, would be wholly inefficacious. GUILDHALL. A young man, named Joseph Holland, was brought before Mr. Alderman MAGNAY, ou suspicion of being a common stealer of poor paver's jackets. Philip Parish, a City policeman, having heard that several men working in the streets had been robbed of jackets, and meeting the prisoner with a large jacket on, detained him on suspicion. He bad on at the time four labourer's jAckets, two waistcoats, and two shirts, and in his pocket he found duplicates relating to four other jackets pawned by him in Shoreditch. The prisoner purchased these jackets in P. tticoat-lane, and got hi , ; living by costerm , :,ngering. The ALDERMAN remanded him till Wednesday. William Lewis, an aged imp, who keeps a marine store shop in Addle -street, Wood-strcrt, was re-examined, charged with receiving, and Philip Woodland, a porter, charged with stealing several yards of canvass wrapper, and 221bs of string, the property of his employer, Mr. Jones, a Scotch factor, in Bow Churchyard. The prisoners were discharged. MARY LEBONE. William Hubbard, a ruffiArly-looking fellow, lately dis charged from the Great Western Railway Police, was fined 405., or ono month's imprisonment, for the following brutal assault unon the landlord of the Mint public-house, Padding. ton. The conipbmant had a few friends in his private par lour, when the prisoner rudely forced his way into the room, offering for sale some numbers of The Golden Sun ; he was desired to leave the room, upon which he struck the landlord a violent blow in the mouth, and seizing his hand bit his wrist in a very savage manner. The prisoner then left the house, but in tkfew minutes returned again and struck the complainant a blow on the eye, which felled him to the earth. With great trouble he was taken into custody. QUEEN-SQUARE. Mrs. Maybank, of Upper Chapter-street, Westminster, preferred a charge of assault against her next door neighbour, Mrs. White, in the following words:—" Please your vorship, Mrs. Vite has been assaulting me in a most unladylike and un delicate manner, and vot is vorser, has nearly killed my favourite puppy. Bieos the hinnecent young cretur come permiscous-like into her b ck gardin, she tosses the perty cretur twenty feet into the hair, and it comes back to me in a shocking state, quite nonplw,hod." She further said, that when she complained of the insult offered to her puppy, the defendant attempted to knock her down. After a great deal of recrimination, the assault on the complainant was ad mitted, and Mrs. .White was fined twenty shillings. LAMBETH-STREET. Mary Ann Papwot ih, an interesting girl of sixteen, was placed at the bar, charged by Moses James Berwick, a marine store-dealer, of Denmark -street, St. George's-in-the-East, with attempting to set fire to his house. After hearing evi dence, the Magistrates said that they did not believe a word of the charge against the girl, and immediately discharged her. UNIOA-BALL. At the close of the business of the day a lady, of prepos sessing appearance, about thirty years of age, followed by a gentleman, entered the office, and, approaching the Magistrate s asked to be protected from the annoyance of by her hus band, from whom she had been separated for the last three mouths by mutual consent, but who followed her about, and created great uneasiness. She wished to know if the Magis trates could not divorce them ? The husband sail that, after being married nearly seven years, his wife preferred the company of a gentleman who escorted her about to the theatres and places of amusement, to living respectably at home. The lady said that her husband's jealousy was without the slightest foundation., as he well knew ; but notwithstanding this he had carried thiii feeling so far as to hold up herself and a mutual friend to ridicule by having the bans of marriage between her and the gentleman published in the parish church. After considerable recrimination on both sides, the Magis trates advised that the compiainant and her husband should appeal to a mutual friend, and abide by his decision, as they had no Power to interfere. The Hull Advertiser of Sa•urday last, speaking of the meeting of the working men in connection with Col. Thomp son's speech made on that occasion, and published in The Sun, justly remarks that—" Although the meeting of the working men in Hull was not one of the most numi.rous of their gatherings this autumn, it cannot be denied that, as regards the character of the speeches delivered, with one exet:ption ( Feargus O'Connor's). whioh we are about to notice, it was above the average. No previous asse m bly o f t h e Univer.. salists can point to anything comparable with Colonel Thompson's speech, , „ Supetiority of talent the most i . aut i co , \m g or r•rocious Tor ) must co , code to this cham of the w. iki .g pc , tple lie may stand in intellecturd competition by thu side of thetr proude;t, and ea s ily o ver ), tb.m," TIS FiF rEEN Ft ET. " What is note," said the trumpeter's wife, on seeing the l long spout that the traveller imeer ed into Strasburg one cool evening in August—" Welt a nose 1 'tis as long as a tru m p et.' Just similar is the surprise manifested by the Editor of the Brighton Gazette at the length of the address to Sir W David Scott. " Benedicite," ‘a,..s the Brighton Gazette, " fifteen feet loeg !" "'Tis of the same metal," the trumpeter's wife, " you may hear by its sneez ing. 'Tis ag "'Tis full of names," says the Brighton Gavette. soft as a lute," says the t ru mpeter' s wife. " They are all a! true se the Goqiel," says the Brighton Gazette. the said the trump e ter's wife. Lots of brass," says public. " 'Tis pudding's end," said the trumpeter's wife* " Nothing mere nor less," echoes the public. " Fifteen feet of morality I"—it is a great quantity , Put it into yards or inche s a s you will—we doubt whether any man, ever possessed so much before ; it will carry a body a g reat way on an empty stomach—it would whitewash a man th ou g h , , he were as black as an Ethiopian. " Sleep is a blessed t hin g , but says Sancho Pauza—" it cevereth a man like a cloak -- " 'Tis brass, fifteen feet of morality, L o rd I it is quilt, counterpine, blankets, and warming-pan into the bargain I What a happy man Sir David Scott must be—but for this he might have been pinched with cramp at night--tor: turcd with conscience—haunted by nightmare—eaten up wita rheumatism—afflicted with palsy—goaded by the blues---he might have had Mr. Griffith at his elbow when went to bed ; be might have found him th ere in the morning—he might have had unpleasant refl ection .: of Bedlam—of chains and unearthly howlings—h e !nig° have fancied himself an oppressor—a bad-hearted, evil !ra n ; all sorts and kinds of phantasies might have tormented _ but for this new panacea—the fifteen feet of moral it y our friends the Tories and Radicals have got up 1 Nfr• " It is fifteen feet long," says the trumpeter —an - one Griffith has been imprisoned fifteen years: that is j W ust ba(lts foot of morality to every year's imprisonment. monstrous quantity of sack to such a little water 1 an % We repeat that Sir David Scott must be a very bapPY m --- what he has lost in pocket be has gained in morality. tie eleven hundred compurgators, and that would have save 0 f f ee t king's soul in the "good old times ;" he has fifteen morality, and that would save a saint's at any time. Het Sir David Scott !—Brighton Herald. he THE RHINOCEROS AND ITS SENTINEL: A ' 1 black rhinoceros, unlike the timid white one, is a dreadfli* adversary to meet in hunting, and "is often accompanie d bi d a sentinel to give him warning, a beautiful green-backed f ie f blue-winged bird ab ut the size of a jay, which sits on ne e ., his horns. When he is standing at his ease among the tb ic a bushii, or rubbing himself up against a dwarf tree, stout abeer s'.rong like himself, the bird attends him, that it niOY e L it „ e feed on the insects which either fly about him, or which - , 0 , - found in the wrinkles of his head arid neck. The creeling hunter, stealthily approaching ou the leeward side, e gre b u es e notes the motions of the sentinel bird ; for he may p re though he cannot see the rhinoceros behind his leafy sere-the If the monster moves his head slightly, and without slam], , bird flies from his horns to his shoulder, remains the re ba s short time, and then return, to its former strange if the bird, from its elevated position and better eyes , i 110 the approach of danger, and flies up in the air sulden'Y'„ s ses let the hunter beware; for the rhinoceros instantly r " hes desperately and fearlessly to wherever be bears the brave crack."—Alexander's Expedition into Africa. C Ns l' TEE-TOTALISM PHYSIOLOGICALLY -° de.- DERED.—On Monday evening last, Oct. 15, a lecture sys e o f livered in the Town Hall, Doncaster, by M. Syder, E s q . ; iS London, to a numerous and highly respectable aud'e lle ; e ed suprort of the principles of tee-totalism. The lecturer P d pi , perch: note that alcohol, the intoxicating agent in all spirituous s p ; u t he mented drinks, is not a production of nature—that it ' g oes production of fermentation alone, in which process obit & 00 originally good are converted into pernicious age nts ' h a ve showed, also, that all writers upon chemistry t she classed it among the vegetaLle narcotic poisons---thaoges stomach has no power to convert it to the P iz a r `ten l of the animal economy—that it keeps the I n jure in a state of constant and unnatural excitemen ii t " glass ing every organ with which it comes in contact. r i s e bog trated his views and positions in a very powerful and b ena manner, by drawings of the human sstem. The stonlacooy liver of a drunkard was shown to y the audience, ssi,,, th be lee' other examples of the evils of the drinking as stem. ' lecture b/ turer concluded his most interesting and instructive leetoesn showing the physical, domestic, moral, and religions At the tages of total abstinence from intoxicating drinks. I , r , 0 close of the lecture, which occupied more than three b°,r s w as delivery, he was warmly cheered, and a vote of thatol.boa. unanimously passed, and several signatures obtained''' . caster Gazette. no iper MEETING OF WEL SH BARDS.--This a- ter estr nary of the Cymreigyddion, was one of extraordinary it,roces in consequence of a Deputation from Brittany, in b Os being present on Wednesday and Thursday. Althea nur se largest number of competitors for the prizes were- 0f at iee§ from the place of assembling being in South Wales---noured of that portion of the Principality, yet we notice the hn,jortb name of the Rev. Walter Davies, and other natives of The Wales, among the competitors and successful candidates.epot venerable Sir C. Morgan presided in the Hall at Abergacl with and was greeted on his entrance, by the harp ar l _A his cheers. After the fipplause had ceased, he address eO . .‘ Noble Loyal Cambrian friends." Several othe r kin , believed that b e t h o r f o w t h n e a fire way ...... o f 13 f r r i i tlemen also spoke, amongst whom was Monsieur s -- , e s ii p t' ark bel those her sons in Wales; and wheri they returned tb b I_ would have a tale of glory and hope to n relate. He said the though this spot of country appeared in a small corner of . t . . ° , , et away.—Brittany i m p i n g o b w , lit map of Europe, yet the enthusiasm which animated t e nFd though supposed to have been extinct upwards of 300 year a _n s. made them famous all over the continent, where at present ... :1 0 f be proud eo_ tern appeared to prevail of attempting to crush any sP d ll tie . nationality. The customs of this country remain, the changed; her bard s , m i ns t re l s , and music, Were o . ! re pot same ; the peculiar ch ara cters of her nationality ssetnroiti of f to be cancell e d ; an d h e h o p e d that the bonds r a erie b ' between Artrnoriea and Cambria would be equally in l , P r o etis ro v ' o , ce o f able Though the waves whicii divided them might the fury of the tempest, they could not drown the a ik i rt hor . effection, and we csn now exclaim tsith pride, " KineL os ts e l is not dead." M. Rio was greeted with enthusiastic " wi le; applause. Several B4rd s came forward and re cited eng YT composed in honour of the President arid the occasi°Tososed Datgeinieid sung and a harp duet was afterwards Pe r ; st by Mr. Jones, of Clifton, and Mr. Griffiths, of Tre i de g o B o ke f the conclusion of which Mons. Jacquelot rose an scrheete' some length in the French language, and was warmly _ ;ye s.••••• The President called on the Judges to award the P ri Abridged from the Shrewsbury Chronicle. hy dro' MAD DOGS.—We last week stated t hat a solo ° phobia had appeared amongst dogs in Nottinghae l, ,l ce W u ; of them had, in conseq uence , b een d e stroyed• f i to a Ivor 5 we regret to say, the dreadful disease has appear"' e a ord i er t alarming extent, and the town Magistrates have tab u u f o utla r l, for all dogs to be confined, and that if any should, ss at.- -- L A large that they will be destroyed.—Doncaster 4-16-wid? of the reporter quite sure that the d ogs d es troyed we re does nLe medical man assures us th a t a case o f ac tual rabiest or the occur once during whole years toeter ; and that °PIn 'oes dl ia igeorance of Coronsrs' Juries, an g d the delusive fa O, , emietited by them, w hi c h ac t power f u ll y on peopleboutseisloaa and credulous clas, we should hear of hydrophobia .._ es w in 'eed. Th e e ff ec t o f t h e i mag i nat i on i n produei n iv as removing disease, is well known.] ----oil, ..................... ---- ,_, - ;" - A t d, SILVER WATCHES TWO GUlNri f ' - arra ii-e st An Assortment of Second-hand Watches„ all of t he °N :vice, and of various sizes, may be selected from, for the OA )/ * 119 T. COX SAVORY'S, 7 C erab' Working Sil versm ith, G o ld sm i t h , an d W atc hmaker' 4. ) ° f London ( Seven D oors f rom Gracechurch-stroet e nr it.:es 0 . N.B. A pamphlet., containing a detailed list of t a il, both Plate, Plated Goods Watches, Clocks, Ecc., tneY,t ll will be forwarded in a nswer to a post-paid applic e "'" -. ......... _ ~L . .,! _ , son . BIRTHS. of s iiiri On the 16th i ns t., a t Vauxhall, Mrs. Adam Elnislie , 4 o 0 At Childe-Okeford, Dona, on the 18th inst., ' Portman, of a son. 4 00 11 ,. MAR R !F.D. Jsr ac ales° ° ' On the 17th inst., at Trinity Church, Southvrarl4, to es z i e cly son of the late Mr. Abraham Hawkins, of Greenwie`" of Y Eliza, second daughter of the late Mr. John DiseeY' Cdr" heath-hill. Pol e" ' tit° On the 18th inst., at Southwold, Suffolk, Georgear,oet, Esq., of York-buildings Islington, to Mary M e e DO' daughter J. A. o j f on T e . s, W t, . , INTihisosmN'prs.on D. Esq., nSouthwold* heri e ' i On the 18th inst., at St. , Geo ci rg " e's Church, C ain tli °' o High f H )n i:i t liy b o e Lb l oo B dr i gn h e, , i t n oK s t iE . nigi a zsa t w.o E 3o. w dou, el ns l g , e S st ur d r a e u y g , hieler.oCf hisearale:l;for944 On ' the 18th inst., at St fleo t Y ,burP gbt er , o r e's Church, , 0 , 00 01 ~ d s u Churten, Esq., surgeon, oh G es e t o e r r ge' t s o C C h a u r r o c l h in e," r u jo g h e n ''9-li r ° o er.P. of tho late Henry Gaitskell, E e ' Abbey-road, t.,:.. ci. of l i f e W I " At Melton, on the 18th inst. -. Henry Johnson, •-•-t;cl.. of street, to Sarah, eldest daughte . ; of John FerneieY, a John ton Mowbray, Se R• s e e rs" On the Pith inst., at Netherseale, Leicestershire', s. ft. h' o ,5 Ali; Buttemer, Esq., to Anna Dew, youngest daughter ' Jam - ~itiet on, Esq., of the Old Hall, Netherseale. o ne; , Sa- On the 19th inst., at St. George's. Hanover-s 4 _ f 11sr• son, Esq., of Liverpool, to Elizabeth, daughter . Jones, Overton, near Ellesmere. f J° ll he 29th , o Est , At Guansxuato, in the Republic of Mexico , o r l t s t ole) , ot ioa D :TED. last, aged 29, Elizabeth Susannah, the wife of Joh, n i i ii t Ao °c Commissioner o• the Anglo_Mexican Alining an d ' Gr° oo, in that city. r J. r • At Tobago, on the 9 ,l ult., Charles, son of IV . late George Hanmer Le On the 24th ult., aged 9 5 Oswald Walden , no f the of Abehurch-lane, aged ` , 5. •' fourth r ~allO4 the , e , 0 of white-V sc .• to w i llts Berks. saw -road' yce ' ster,Esq., e otbs , On the 15th inst. in • 1 1 e - Middlesex-plac e = esex-p ac , and s ro e Browne, Esq., wne, Esq., aged 76. . e ars On the 16th inst., at Walthaie stow, aged 12), ~. crn itlr Kitty, the youngest child of Paul and Sarah CW O , 4 West Smith' Kitty, the 16th just., at Oxford, Mr. J. H. Penton, of White' field, ag e d 90. i b-street, On the 18th last., Mr. Thomas Elton, of 1 1 4 lid O f the chapel, aged 63. Ann, re lict On the 18th inst., in Larkhall-lane, Clapham , AO late Thomas Stone, Esq., Al. ,, enn ingt ( t e d 16 On the 19th inst., in Clapham.road-place, '" s „ a rks, i's , ie ssY , the infant daughter of Joseph and JessY i ter-Place' trinn the. of Cf ............. . 4 , _ On the 18th inst„. James Lansdown, Esq. , -- Ise , .., ' - ' ----- o Regent's Park, architect - ----- 1J N G ' alarl -- -- ----:-------- ale 9. •-ohttort. Printed atul Published b, .Ql/tt .. .,i o n 112, Strand, at The Sun Moe; No. 11:. li i '' 61 latddresev—,achy, Ootolror 22, 180.